Thursday, June 19, 2008
Day 4-Defining Multimedia
Multimedia is the integration of text, graphics, animations, sound and video. I found it very interesting to see how the definition has changed throughout history. I started thinking how it has changed so much just in my life time. When I was in elementary school my teacher would use this old movie projector to show science films. It would take forever for her to get the film reel on and to get everything to work but it was neat when we got to see a film at school. In my classroom my students have access to all kinds of multimedia. They can watch a video at just a touch of a button on their computers. I remember my mom using this old brownie camera when I was very young. Then we moved up to a Kodak. I think we might of even had a Polaroid camera. Every few years we would upgrade and get a camera that could do more things. Now everyone in my family has a digital camera or a camcorder. It is amazing how far technology has come and how the definition of multimedia continues to change.
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I know it is amazing how far technology has come! I remember for my senior year my dad gave me is Minolta camera with a brand new zoom lens. I thought I was so cool taking picture with it. It was a move up from my rectangle kodak camera. Our students don't realize how lucky they are with the technology they have today. With todays camera, you can take a picture view it and if you don't like it get rid of it with a push of a button. You can also print out photos right there on the spot intead of sending it in to get developed. The only thing we have to do is take the time and teach our students on how to proper use the digital camera. Believe me I had a lot of blurry photo for yearbook this year. They don't realize that there is a delay when taking the picture. This year before handing any student a camera, we are going to learn all the functions.
It's fun to see how much technology has changed over time, and how we know it will continue to change in the future. Then to be able to use all these functions in the classroom will be amazing.
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